skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically speaking: Very very cool and impressive. Especially the real-time editing.

On the flip side, it is styled very much to mimic Chrome's own editor. And that makes me wonder. When or why would I use this over what is already built into Chrome?
Why would it be safe for people driving vehicles, but not for police officers?
The World's Biggest Hedge Fund You Have Never Heard Of: Apple
15 Tested Vintage Photoshop Actions
French study shows tablet use among children on the rise
I think that an important distinction has to be made about this kind of people. Unlike many journalists, and 'futurists' out there, trying to predict what the future will be like, people like Jobs and Gates[1] do not make bold predictions, just for the sake of making them. Instead they have a vision and they work to make that vision real.

That's the reason of why, when they speak, sometimes the things they tell may seem to be a little bit odd at the time, but eventually that things became real.

There are a few examples of this in the interview made by AllThingsD to Gates and Jobs together in 2007. [1] At 35:30 Gates said that he was sure the tablet market was about to explode (while jobs was looking at him with a funny poker face), and later, he basically described Kinnect, a few years before Project Natal was made public.

If Google haven't revealed Glass or their autonomous cars, and Larry or Sergey came out speaking about driver-less cars, and wearable devices, some would think that they are dreaming, but the truth is that they are describing their vision, and they are working to make it real.

It's like what jobs said at min 43, when asked about 5 years from 2007 (yeah, right now!). And he said: "I don't know, " [...] "but something comes along, gets really popular, people love it, get used to it, you want it on there".

They are not wizards, they happen to know what currently exists, and what's being developed. So, instead of making weird assumptions (like: "ok, assuming that we will develop a material 1000 times stronger, 100 times lighter and 10 times cheaper, we'll have X in ten years"), they rationalize about what's the logical evolution of the technology, based on what they know.

[1] http://allthingsd.com/video/?video_id=60C4F9FA-9AD5-4D04-8BB... , Min 28 and forward.
Great little game. Excruciatingly difficult but feels like a work of joy.
In the United Kingdom, we have a whole slab of second-level domains for specific purposes. .ac.uk for educational establishments beyond school, .sch.uk for schools, and .bl.uk for the national library. On top of that we even have ones like .police.uk, .parliament.uk, and soon .judiciary.uk. I believe Japan has a system like this too. I can't seeing it getting much use in either. Then again, not every country has this, so it probably should be released.
Hi, thanks for the comment about the editing. The main problem this solves is that the Chrome Dev Tools/Firebug don't save your changes back to your source code. For people who do alot of front end development, they code some adjustments (sometimes many at once) but then have to 'recode' those adjustments in their css file. This is error prone and slow, and sometimes this has to be done dozens of times per day!
Steve Jobs was obviously holding Apple back, only just recently did we finally get a 4 inch screen, 4G LTE, and (keep in mind he publicly decried this form factor) an iPad mini 7ish inch tablet

long live tim cook
What's the difference between showing adverts on the next page or adverts further down the same page? They could continue all the way to the bottom of the page. Not that I want to see this but it would be an improvement on paged articles.
> If so, how does a company or a co-founder protect against such tactics? I know about anti-takeover strategies like poison pills and so on in the corporate world, but I wonder whether they are really effective in the early stage rounds.

If it's between founders, you work out how you want these situations to play out and then you see a lawyer to form a contract that will bind you.
Non-commercial only. There are several similar projects some of which are really open source: http://smtlib.cs.uiowa.edu/solvers.html
Ha, the locations of all our equipment was boiled down to a science in my unit. For example, the tourniquet was in the left side because the left was more difficult to access in prone because we cant remove our right hands from the gun and we need the left elbow for stability. (For non-military people, the tourniquet that a person carries is used on him in case of emergency so he himself should rarely need to access it).
For regular hashing it makes no difference

For cryptographic hashing it may make a difference, depending on the context.
my source: http://liliputing.com/2010/10/apple-ceo-steve-jobs-bashes-7-...
It always seemed odd to me that the protocol expects everyone to always have the full blockchain (currently over 2 GB of data). The response is always "when it becomes a problem we'll fix it", but isn't it already a problem for mobile use etc? The other problem I never see mentioned is the slow speed in getting transactions confirmed (for me it takes maybe 30 minutes)
What I don't really understand is how pagination gives more ad impressions in a way that simply adding more adverts into the text in a long page doesn't.

If the goal is more ads, why not just put more ads on longer pages?
A very simple format would be regular fixed dot patterns (⣿) corresponding to bytes, spaced a apart a bit. Then it's the user's responsibility to be sensible and encode stuff without too clever compression. This wouldn't guard against trying to read the image sideways or upside down though.

If you get a disc with ASCII text and can read the bits a 100 years from now, even if ASCII coding is lost to history, as long as you can figure out the thing is supposed to contain writing that uses 8 bits per letter, and still know English, a trivial pattern analysis gets you the code table you can use to read the text.

The plaintext can then be used to describe the formats for whatever other data the disk may contain.
HappyEdit - an HTML5 Remake of Vim
That test is unlikely to happen. regular folks do not put their life savings into currencies or commodities. They put their life savings into banks. A saving account in a bank does not contain a heap of cash or gold nuggets. Instead its an trust relationship between the bank and the bank customer, like a contract.

I would guess that in "the future", the name of currencies will become less likely to end up in the mindset of the general public. All they know is that a specific thing (a computer, a car, and so on) will cost X amount of what they have in the bank.
i only saw a random link where i could test my newly installed bookmarklet... if i had installed it. :/
Humanity. Which, believe it or not, makes a huge difference in learning subjects.
not the editorial and reporting experience that leads to good copy

Writing, content strategy, curation, copywriting, etc are obviously all important skills. However, being an editor does not remotely qualify someone to run a multimillion dollar business, design software, dictate engineering decisions, etc. Unfortunately, the industry is structured such that they are doing exactly that.

Is it any surprise that slate's division is operating at a loss? It's the norm in a broken industry.
While I hate pagination, the mortal sin of click harvesting is the "slideshow." Nothing gets my blood boiling like a Top 100 list embedded in a clickthrough slideshow.

For regular articles, I use the Autopager extension for Firefox.
There is a system in France called Coyote which is completely legal and works extremely well. It comes with an inbuilt database of static speed traps but the killer feature is a button that each unit has which you press if you pass a mobile speed trap. The device then sends the co-ords via the GSM network back to Coyote head quarters who then relay the info to every other Coyote user in real time. It's really effective.

Site is here: http://www.moncoyote.com/
It's not about frameworks so much as whether people use them. In Python and Ruby, pretty much everyone knows to look for useful gem or pip packages and uses frameworks and does a good job of avoiding reinventing wheels. In PHP, there's still a lot of old-guard cowboys and new blood that want to emulate them which aren't participating in the ecosystem, so the availability and quality of reusable code isn't there yet.
As others pointed out, I believe the 3.4% was simply down to social logins introduced much later. When I fist signed-up for mailchimp ages ago, the only option was creating a new user account.

I think the article dismisses one huge benefit to federated logins:

* ease of use for users - instead of choosing a username, entering all the customer information, verifying the email address etc, choosing a password, you can sign in with one or two clicks.
If you want another way to attack the price problem, you can always emulate real markets. In this position you are the market but you are also the IPO underwriter for each stock. You should pick a certain level of stock, it can all be equal, say 1,000,000 shares for every company and use a limited supply strategy to sell stock in all 50k companies over a certain period of time, say 30 days. This would seed your market.

The in-demand stocks will rise quickly with the limited supply strategy and lesser demanded stocks will drop to be penny stocks. It'll probably be 80/20 where 80% are worth pennies.

Once you have offloaded your entire inventory now you just allow others to trade between themselves and you are done. The market will correct your approximations in short order.

If you are looking for a pricing engine to handle the limited supply strategy, send me an email. Given that this is all funny money I'll just let you use our REST API for the pricing.
"don't want information to get out."

What exactly are you implying, he should have blackmailed them?
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Percocets are amphetamines?
Coyote is a nice French startup success story, also an embedded hardware success, similar to Parrot.

I'm a bit disappointed that it fits the typical parisian pattern of elder, management consultants founders. No twenty-something founders changing the world here!
some other metrics (we call them "item views") went up as well.

but it must be said: users of that site special, they actually want to find something, so they are (mostly) not casual users.

i remember a case a few years back on a travel site where we had a different experience, time on site went up after we ditched pagination (but that site also had horrible page load time, so every page view was a great opportunity to leave the site, so well, it's all interconnected)
Well, it's optimized to make the amount of money short term. This kind of testing doesn't tell you what the reader thinks of your site, which is kind-of the OP point.

The user might click through to all the pages, but obtain a general disdain for your site. Not saying that pagination enough to make users hate a site, but for me, personally, it doesn't exactly help.
While I'm rather ambivalent on Bitcoin, I feel the article should show transaction volume as well, in order for us to make an informed assessment on its future prospects.

Displaying a prominent graph of only BTC/USD as proof of recovery, without an indication of liquidity and total market size, seems insufficient.
“Like Eating Glass”: Sean Parker on Airtime’s Bumpy Launch & Exec Departures
Exactly! As Alan Kay said "The best way to predict the future is to invent it".

I don't find it is so important that people like Jobs, Gates, Brin, etc. have sometimes correctly predicted the future. What is important is that they executed, and turned these predictions to reality. Even more. They turned these predictions to everyday reality for most people, instead of a select few.

It annoys me when these people are compared to people who just throw a million ideas around and then, when one of these ideas becomes reality, they claim that they are so good at predicting the future.
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I wrote a blog on this problem for Drupal a while ago - but with a particular focus on the fact that Drupal has a 'talent problem' precisely because of what the article says (Drupal is not fun for developers and, moreover, fails to promote learning). You can read it here: http://room271.net/2012/05/24/developers-and-drupal.html

I worked on Drupal for ~1 year and wrote very little custom code.

The caveat is that core developers working at one of the top Drupal shops do get to write interesting code, but they are the exception rather than the norm.

ps. still a big fan of Drupal, just don't want it to be my day-to-day work.
On a site that is version controlled and has a QA workflow for changes, you simply disable the UI for changing those things on production, and the only way to influence them is by committing the changes exported as code and deploying.

The UI is enabled on development environment, allowing for extremely quick experimentation (possibly by non-technical folk), but you still get (most) of the benefits of changes being in code.

ETA: It's not perfect, but it's on it's way to becoming the best of both worlds. Drupal 8 is making significant progress in that direction.
Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence (David Deutsch)
C'mon, we're all friends here. :)
Use something like readability or open all the pages in background tabs (ctrl-click) before you get to the end of page 1.

I almost never read long articles to the end, unless I've added them to readability. If I can't open them in the background so they're loaded when I want them, I usually don't bother
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And the BBC's now defunct CelebDAQ
wow, rly? I remember people slowing down to 130+10 the moment you crossed the german-dutch border. you got some crazy fines in there, don't you?
I still say this: If your node.tpl.php contains field_get_items or equivalent, you are doing it wrong, on a very fundamental level. If the formatters provide too much HTML, write your own, write a proper field.tpl.php etc.
Maybe they pay to have their add on the top of the page? So adds further down would pay less?? Just guessing here..
All of the configuration for my Drupal sites DOES live in a VCS (it just doesn't have to, and many people don't bother).

Drupal 8 is continuing to make this easier and more powerful, by (amongst other changes) making configuration live in the filesystem by default, turning the copy in the database into (one of several options for) a cache.
I like this a lot. Feels as smooth as github.
"Either way, by far the biggest mistake we made during SMB's development was killing ourselves to get into a promotion we would gain basically nothing from."

After suffering through something similar, I will never work for a marketing deadline again. Deadlines are useful, but I have yet to see a marketing deadline live up to the promise.
The same is there in India too.
IMO it's still exciting. Sure, you cannot use it directly for commercial purposes, but having the source for something like this is great to learn from.

And it means that it can be ported to platforms it's currently not available for.
Article title seems to imply there will be some info about the people who programmed these new features... instead there's a rehash of the new features and mention of a library or 2 that we could read about elsewhere.

Author says, "the developers of these new tools deserve some serious recognition for the work they are doing" and then totally fails to mention them!

So now we've again been suckered into the 'PHP good' vs 'PHP bad' non-debate.
Pagination can in fact increase reading time.
Most readers never finish an article. In fact, most readers drop out after the second paragraph. Not because the articles are shit, but because people have a short attention span.

By adding a 'next page' button, you create an incentive to keep reading. By spiking the curiosity of the reader to find out what's behind the bend, they linger instead of leaving.
Mobile speed cameras that are announced on radio ...

Besides, there are still quite a few fixed speed cameras in NL AND some "trajectcontrol" camera (as mentioned by a previous poster). I actually find the latter one the only one worth it, because then you are sure that people slow down for a longer period.
The no commercial use thing is Microsoft speak for "We couldn't figure out how to make money with it, but if you do, give it to me."

:P
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Nope. They're busting the inner platform and having config live in the filesystem to get versioned like anything else. Good luck with those prejudices, though.
If you started making decisions based solely on rational arguments and facts, would those lead to better decisions?

Almost all business are built on intangibles. Emotion, creativity, personality, feelings, loyalty, love etc. These intangibles are extremely difficult to explain yet most decision makers instinctively understand them.

The CEO probably made a decision on instinct. He was not rationally arguing the social integration, he instinctively denied its value. Rationally, you could probably prove the social buttons to be beneficial but you would have to disregard the intangibles.
It's not open source by any stretch of the imagination. The Microsoft blog is quite simply lying.
Show HN: TGIFound.com - Geolocating lost and found community
TGIFound (http://tgifound.com) is a community-based service that lets people report found items and search for them by location.

If you see a lost item on the street you can report it on the mobile app or on the website along with the GPS coordinates, which lets people search for items for a given location. The idea is unique in that it lets people report items as found, rather than lost. It relies on the community to report items as found. The exact location is not revealed but translated to an approximate location to prevent people from gaining possession of someone else's item.

This is a free service and I intend to keep it free for as long as I can manage.

The site was built in Django in a couple of months of spare time as I was learning Django along the way. An iPhone app is also available at (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tgifound/id555479564?ls=1&mt=8). The iPhone app was written in Titanium. It uses quite a few APIs, such as Google Maps so was a useful learning experience for me. I hope that it's a feasible method of reuniting people with their lost items, and I hope that this project can make the world a slightly better place.

The project is still in a very early stage and this is one of the first times I've searched publicity for this. I welcome any feedbacks, criticism and bug reports, or that you simply give it a try. Thanks!
Chart of transaction volume: http://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions

A lot of the recent increase can be attributed to gambling at http://www.satoshidice.com
Yeah although they had to fight a bit. Because it became illegal to announce speed cameras, but they have the right to announce "dangerous zones" ...
> Sure, you cannot use it directly for commercial purposes, but having the source for something like this is great to learn from.

As long as nobody sees you, otherwise you are vulnerable to a lawsuit. If I had serious plans to make my own implementation I would purposefully avoid even running this program.
Looks like it's this phone:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Unlocked-Single-Sim-A-GPS-3G-Cell-Ph...

Same color PCB, sim card and camera in same position.

Though the lowest I saw it listed was $35 for wholesale orders, so I'm guessing it's a bit cheaper without the case, standard battery etc. But really I guess by the time you add in the sim + data costs, new battery and the 2 extra boards + labour would probably be around $40 a piece. So 1000 of these would of costed around $40k, pretty expensive ad campaign for only 1000 people.

But I guess these guys will get a bunch of exposure off it (already has anyway), so it maybe might pay off.
So according to the article, it's not restricted to the US, it's just that the US decides who gets it and who doesn't. The article says the procedure is tedious, but I imagine it's strict so corrupt countries don't just start passing them out to anyway who can pay. People generally trust .edu domains, and they want to keep that reputation. For example, some places use .edu email addresses to identify and grant benefits to students.
You can see the volume (and exchange rate) on the largest USD/BTC exchange (MtGox) here combined on one graph: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#czsg2011-01-01zeg20...

But a better indicator that Bitcoin activity is increasing is the number of Bitcoin transactions on the network itself. Bunch of interesting charts here: http://blockchain.info/charts
Especially: http://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-popul... showing the # of transactions has tripled in the last 4 months.
Apple consistently ship from China to US in 2 days, presumably Lenovo should be able to do the same.
A retail investor invests out of their own account, so at worst the only people harmed are those who, for whatever reason, buy into this so called halo effect. The article makes a point to say that these retail investors are looked down upon by more savvy investors in Korea for this very reason.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/retailinvestor.asp
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That quote came to my mind, while I was writing my comment, and I think it's magnificent. I love it, because it basically tells you: Don't lay there just dreaming about the future, go out and build the future!
Excessive data use after IOS-6 upgrade (AT&T)
It doesn't take that many to move a small stock. Of those involved it certainly seems like some are crazy, others are risk takers/gamblers who hope to get out before the price comes down and some are outright swindlers.

Doesn't apply in the DI case but I wonder if there are actually real commercial benefits to the political links and the chaebol links so in some cases the might be real logic to a rise in prices (which then blow up into a bubble). The commercial benefits may or may not be corrupt, raised profile may be part of it and in the chaebol cases a foot in the door to pitch a product might be a real benefit too.
Here here. Similar replies come up when the topic of sexism comes up, for the same reasons, majority of people here are male.